Milestone 4: Overview

In Milestone 4, you willconduct a peer review of another group's guides. You will then make final edits to your own guides.

Checklist

You are finished with this milestone when you:

Reassemble your device

Finalize all of your guides, including photos, text, and guide mechanics following the Peer Review Checklist

Check that prerequisite guides are used properly

Review all text at least twice, to make sure it is correct for peer review

Provide written feedback for each part of another group's project that did not follow the Peer Review Checklist

Add flags that address each problem with the guides

Incorporate the feedback you received from your peer review group and iFixit

Link all your guides in your troubleshooting page

Email iFixit letting us know you are finished with your project

Incorporate all final feedback from the iFixit technical writing team

Email Us When...

...you finish your project. We'll be thrilled to publish your guides for all the world to see! Include any feedback you have on the project. We always want to improve the program for future students.

Overview

After completing the rough drafts for all your replacement guides, you will give your device to another group from your class, and your guides will be reviewed. Be sure to reassemble your own device before giving it to another group for review. Likewise, you will obtain another group's device and review their guides. Use this checklist to thoroughly examine the other group's guides and to provide feedback on any improvements they may need to make.

Peer review and feedback

Peer review is a form of usability testing, or testing a document to see if it is effective—in this case, to see if users can easily and successfully follow your guide. Usability testing provides an opportunity to find any problems or issues with your guides before they are released.

When you are reviewing other students’ content, it is important to keep a few things in mind:

Only give constructive feedback!

Point out both corrections and things that were done well.

Be as specific as possible, citing specific steps and offering suggestions for changes.

adding flags

In addition to providing written feedback for the group, you will also add flags to their guides. Flags show up at the top of the guide, explaining what things need to be fixed. Check out this page to see a list of flags and what they mean. To add a flag to a guide:

Go into that guide's Edit tab.

Scroll down to the bottom, and select a flag from the drop-down menu below the Flags section.

Choose whichever flag is most applicable to the problem that you observed with the guide. You can add as many flags as necessary to a guide, and they can be deleted once the group fixes the problems.

When you add a flag, you should also write down which flag applies to which step(s) to make sure that the group knows exactly where the mistakes are.

final guides

At this point, any changes from the peer review should have been made, and all pictures/text/markup should be complete and ready to turn in.

After making peer review changes, you can delete the corresponding flags from the guide by going into the Edit tab and clicking "Remove" next to the corrected flags.

DO NOT remove the "In Progress," "Student Guide," or "Member-Contributed" flags from your guides. We will remove these when we publish your guides.

Both the device page and troubleshooting page should be complete and ready to be scored.

DON'T FORGET to go back to your troubleshooting page and add links to your guides!

Finally, send us an email to let us know that you are finished—and if you’d like some final feedback from iFixit’s tech writing team, be sure to let us know. Lastly, don’t forget to send us your own feedback about the project!

Whoa there, dude.

Looks like you’ve got yourself in deep. Grab David Hasselhoff (or a friend) to help out and have them review your work. Milestone 4 is all about making your guides more polished that a freshly waxed surfboard, so carefully review all of the milestone guidelines. If you’ve done your absolute best, email us at techwriting[at]ifixit[dot]com and ride the waves of glory.